(urth) Pike's ghost

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/29/2011 12:11 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> António Pedro Marques wrote:
>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (29-11-2011 16:55):
>>>>> Why do you believe enlightenment came to Patera Silk in the ball court?
>>>> Because the text says so.
>>> Which means that Horn and Nettle say so. To what extent may we rely
>>> upon their interpretation of this event?
>> And to what extent may we rely on their assertion that they wrote LS?
>>
>> And to what extent may we rely on their actual existence?
>>
>> Come to think of it, it may well be the case that all those stories are the
>> product of someone's imagination.
> Well, obviously they're the product of Wolfe's imagination; the
> question is to what extent, within the posited reality of Wolfe's
> imagination, we may rely upon what they say about Silk's
> enlightenment. I _want_ the enlightenment to be real, because it makes
> the story much better (for me). But we have to keep in mind that we
> are talking about an account written by a couple of Silk fanboyz
> (well, a fanboy and a fangirl), based on hearsay, several years after
> the events in question.
>

And this is after all how saints are made.